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Deidre

Writer, omnivorous reader, gadabout, spendy, brainy and rarely bored. I am the Scout for the real estate channel and am totally obsessed with the fluctuations of the housing market and love reading the stories from around the world that people submit. My personal blog is http://deidrew.tumblr.com

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This story has mostly positive ratings. 125 votes / 5 sinks

Man gives up job as a chef to cook for kids

Do No Evil – Jerome Jackson spent 12 years as a chef with a chain of luxury hotels.But less than a year ago, Jerome believes God called him to a road less traveled, and he traded Shrimp Alfredo for something more basic. He now works as a chef for Hillsborough County Children's Services, an agency that cares for abused and neglected kids.

View Story Discuss (13) (tampabays10.com) 483 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 09:10pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 52 votes / 3 sinks

UK's champagne habit: 37 million bottles a year

Food – First the Russians were credited with fuelling the London property boom. Then their wealth flooded into sectors from art to sports cars. Now the rush of roubles into Britain is credited with funding another rising market - champagne.

View Story Discuss (6) (news.independent.co.uk) 484 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 28, 2007 12:32am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 8 sinks

Author of new book dishes on women traveling solo

Travel – A new book tells female travelers just what they need to know to leave the kids, the husband and the worries at home and fly solo. Teresa Rodriguez Williamson has collected real-life stories, tips, advice and plenty of humor - and put it all together in "Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone."

View Story Discuss (4) (insidebayarea.com) 486 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 25, 2007 10:33pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 118 votes / 5 sinks

Earthquake of Magnitude 7.1 Hits Off Japan's Coast

News – Japan issued a tsunami warning for the country's Sea of Japan coast after a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck early Sunday. The quake struck shortly before 10 a.m. off the north coast of Ishikawa prefecture, Japan's Meteorological Agency said.

View Story Discuss (34) (foxnews.com) 487 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 24, 2007 09:27pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 86 votes / 7 sinks

Smithsonian Art Museums Are Underfunded

Art & Design – The Smithsonian Institution's eight art museums are "drastically underfunded" and have "seldom lived up to their names," according to an external review released Wednesday. The voluntary review by a panel of seven prominent museum directors gives recommendations to strengthen each museum.

View Story Discuss (24) (sfgate.com) 490 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 22, 2007 12:07am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 46 votes / 7 sinks

Deals in the Japan art market

Art & Design – Japan, the world's second-biggest economy, enjoying its longest expansion in six decades, has been left out of the current art market boom. For collectors, the message is: Buy now. Tokyo's overlooked galleries are attracting a new generation of young Japanese encouraged by skyrocketing overseas prices for established Japanese artists.

View Story Discuss (7) (bloomberg.com) 496 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 16, 2007 07:15am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / 7 sinks

Housing Recovery Likely This Year, But Timing Isn't Clear

Real Estate – Unusual weather patterns and problems in the subprime lending marketplace are creating challenges in assessing housing market conditions, but a recovery is likely this year, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of Realtors(R).

View Story Discuss (21) (rismedia.com) 497 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 14, 2007 08:32pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 35 votes / 3 sinks

Teens tried to unload stolen Bentley

Autos – Like a seasoned car salesman, Michael Jarman shook the man's hand and congratulated him on being the proud owner of a 2007 Bentley. Except the man was an undercover cop who knew the $200,000 car was stolen.

View Story Discuss (2) (palmbeachpost.com) 501 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 10, 2007 06:48pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 50 votes / 3 sinks

Heirs sell, donate art to Dutch

Art & Design – The U.S. heirs to a major collection of art looted by the Nazis and finally returned after years of legal wrangling have sold four paintings back to the Dutch government for $4 million and donated a fifth work.

View Story Discuss (8) (chicagotribune.com) 504 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on March 07, 2007 10:03pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 55 votes / 3 sinks

In Norway, cold cash turns into hot art

Art & Design – Norwegian artist Jan Christensen created a work he called "Relative Value" by pasting bills worth $16,300 on a sprawling 7-by-13 foot canvas. Christensen used real money out of his own pocket. Thieves smashed a window into the gallery late Sunday and made off with the cash-laden canvas, police said.

View Story Discuss (21) (timesunion.com) 512 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on February 27, 2007 11:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 50 votes / No sinks

Bringing Your Art to the Online Market

Art & Design – Success in selling handmade products on the Net means understanding two important concepts: Brand value and integrated-marketing practices

View Story Discuss (6) (businessweek.com) 513 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on February 27, 2007 12:55am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 42 votes / 10 sinks

Pitt and Jolie To Adopt Child from Vietnam?

Celebrities – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have filed paperwork to adopt a boy from Vietnam, according to press reports. A source in Vietnam tells US Weekly the couple have filed papers with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services to adopt a boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, which they visited in November.

View Story Discuss (24) (sfgate.com) 517 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on February 22, 2007 10:04pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 59 votes / 6 sinks

Prada gives devilish style to man-made fabrics

Shopping – Miuccia Prada raided the kitchen cleaning cupboard for innovative fabrics for womenswear next winter, dressing her models on Tuesday in materials that looked like sponge cloths, black plastic and insulation foam.

View Story Discuss (4) (washingtonpost.com) 519 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on February 20, 2007 05:42pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 41 votes / 1 sink

Little-known `Monuments Men' hunted art treasures stolen by Nazis

Books – "Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great Art, America and her Allies Recovered It" by Robert Edsel, puts the spotlight on the Momuments Men a small army of art experts under the auspices of U.S. forces who rescued and protected works of art from the ravages of war during World War II.

View Story Discuss (4) (mercurynews.com) 532 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on February 08, 2007 12:45am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 56 votes / 7 sinks

Super Bowl a big day for takeout food

Food – More than one in eight Americans orders takeout or delivery food for the Super Bowl, the National Restaurant Association said. The majority of the snackers order pizza, but half also order chicken wings, and 20 percent get sandwiches.

View Story Discuss (11) (forbes.com) 541 days ago by Deidre

Submitted and Voted for on January 29, 2007 04:12pm

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